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The Geography of the Region about Devil's Lake and the Dalles of the Wisconsin

Part 2 — INDEX.

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Ablemans 66, 67

Baraboo Lake 130

Baraboo Quartzite ranges 2, 65

Constitution of 14

Dynamic action in 15, 17, 18

Gaps in—

Devil's Lake Gap 3, 13

Lower Narrows 5, 13, 67

Narrows Creek 66

Upper Narrows 5, 10, 17, 19, 67

Igneous rock in 18

Structure of 15

Topography of 5, 13

Base-level 47

Base-level plains 50

Bowlder clay 97

Breccia 18

Castle Rock 71

Cleopatra's Needle 65

Cold Water Canyon 70

Conglomerate 10, 28

Basal (Potsdam) 29

Corrasion 36

Cross-bedding 30

Cycle of erosion 44, 47

Dalles of the Wisconsin 69

Origin of 53

Scenery of 69, 140

Dell Creek 53

Deltas 30, 56, 120

Deposits—

By extra-glacial waters 115-123

By ice 85, 94

By rivers 55, 56

By subglacial streams 124

Of drift classified 127

Devil's Doorway 65

Devil's Lake 132

History of 132

In glacial times 132

Location 3, 9

Origin of 132

Devil's Nose 5, 110

Divides, Shifting of 44

Dorward's Glen 10, 14, 29, 68

Drift 73

Characteristics of 96

Constitution of 94

Deposits classified 127

Effect on topography 85, 88

Relation of stratified to unstratified 125

Stratified 111

Topography of 101, 103

Driftless area 79, 142

Drainage—

Adjustment of 62

Changes in, effected by the ice 128, 142

Establishment of 61

Glacial 113

Of drift-covered area 144

Of driftless area 144

Postglacial changes in 146

Endmoräne 108

Erosion—

By rain, and rivers, general outline of 36-58

Elements of 36

Of folded strata 50

Of rocks of unequal hardness 47

Of the quartzite 25

Preglacial 60

Topography 12

Without valleys 37

Eskers 124

Falls 48

Fossils—

In limestone 12

In sandstone 9, 11

Friendship mounds 71

Geographic features, general 3-20

Glacial drainage 113

Glaciated area 78, 91, 143

Glacier ice—

Deposition by 85

Direction of movement 88

Erosive work of 79-84

Formation of 74

Movement of, affected by topography 89

Glens 68

Green Bay lobe 91

Gibraltar rock 63

Ground Moraine—

Constitution of 99

Location of 97

Topography of 101

Groundwater level 41

Ice sheets—

Formation of 74

History of 114

Movement of 75, 88

North American ice sheet 78

Igneous rock 18

Intermittent streams 42

Kames 115

Lakes—

Wisconsin Lake 129

Baraboo Lake 130

Devil's Lake 3, 9, 132, 137

Limestone, see Lower Magnesian.

Lower Magnesian limestone—

Fossils of 12

History of 31-32

Occurrence of 11

Origin of 11

Position of 12

Structure of 8

Lower Narrows 5, 13, 67

Mantle rock 20, 144

Metamorphism 14, 24

Monadnocks 51

Moraines (see terminal moraine and ground moraine).

Morainic aprons 119

Narrows 49

In quartzite 66, 67

Natural bridge 69

Navy Yard 69

Niagara limestone 33

North American ice sheet 78

Nunatak 89

Osars (see Eskers).

Outwash plains 118, 120

Overwash plains 118, 120

Parfrey's Glen 10, 14, 29, 68

Peneplain 47, 50

Pewit's nest 9, 53, 69

Pine Hollow 69

Postglacial changes 146

Potsdam sandstone—

Fossils of 9, 11

History of 27-31

Origin of 9-11

Relation to quartzite 19

Structure of 8

Quartzite (see also Baraboo quartzite ranges)—

Dynamic Metamorphism of 24

Erosion of 25

Origin of 23

Submergence of 27

Thickness of 26

Uplift of 24

Rapids 48

Rejuvenation of streams 56

Ripple marks 9, 15

Roches mountennée 81

Sandstone (see Potsdam and St. Peters).

Sauk Prarie 117, 118, 119

Skillett Creek 8, 53, 138

Slope of upper surface of ice 111

Snow fields 74

Soil 7, 144, 146

Stand rock 70

Steamboat rock 70

St. Peter's sandstone 32

Stratified drift 111-112, 125

Streams, changes in 138

Subaqueous overwash plains 120

Subglacial till (ground moraines) 99

Sugar Bowl 70

Talus slopes 65

Terminal moraines—

Across the United States 78

Development of 102

In Devil's Lake region 105

Boundaries of 106

Location of 92, 93, 108

On the main quartzite range 107

Width of 106

Topography of 103

Till 97

Topography—

Effect of, on ice movement 89

Erosion topography 12

Of drift-covered country 8, 143

Of driftless area 6, 7, 12, 143

Of plain surrounding quartzite ridge 6

Of quartzite ridges 5

Transportation by streams 55

Tributary valleys 39

Turk's Head 65

Unconformity 19

Underground water 58

Unglaciated areas 79, 142, 143

Unstratified drift 99, 102, 125

Upper Narrows 5, 10, 17, 19, 67

Valley, the—

Beginning of 37

Characteristics of, at various stages 52-54

Course of 39

How a valley gets a stream 40

Limits of 43

Valley trains 116

Waterfalls 48

Weathering 36

Webster's Prarie 119

Wisconsin Lake 129

Wisconsin River 139

Witch's Gulch 70

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